Arterial Calcification as a Repair Mechanism in Health and Disease
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nuclear Medicine & Radiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 691
Special Issue Editor
Interests: arterial wall calcification in the arteries; radiography and computed tomography detection of calcifications in arteries; abdominal aortic calcification; pseudoxanthoma elasticum; computerised tomography; medical image processing; blood vessels; diagnostic radiography; haemorheology; image segmentation; biomedical imaging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With aging, nearly all people develop arterial calcifications somewhere in the body, but most people do not experience vascular disease or die from it. These calcifications are linked to atherosclerosis and can lead to obstructive acute disease and arteriosclerosis, sometimes leading to vessel stiffness and chronic vascular disease. Although these calcifications can be the cause of vascular disease, they sometimes protect against it. These apparently contradictory findings are best explained when the calcification process is seen as a repair mechanism that is normally sufficient and able to adequately repair arterial damage, plaques and aneurysms. In some people, however, the mechanism is suboptimal, being either too low (insufficient) or too high (hyperactive), thus causing diseases. In light of this, much knowledge is required about different vascular territories. In this Special Issue, we are looking for original research and review papers that increase and summarise our knowledge of vascular calcifications in the cerebral vessels, the aorta, the coronaries, the female mammary (breast) arteries, and the peripheral arteries. Furthermore, articles that discuss the rare monogenetic diseases linked to calcification and the way in which they can be models for studying how calcifications could cause disease in the general population are of interest. Finally, manuscripts discussing the modulation of the calcification process, which has been shown to be possible with old and new medication, are requested. By integrating existing and new knowledge, we hope that this Special Issue will improve our understanding of arterial calcifications.
Prof. Dr. Willem P. T. M. Mali
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- arterial calcification
- repair mechanism
- general population
- rare diseases
- vascular disease
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